Overview
- Active phishing campaigns are impersonating New York’s tax agency via text, email, and mail to steal personal and payment information.
- Scam messages use urgent deadlines and bogus legal citations, directing victims to lookalike websites that request Social Security numbers and banking details.
- State guidance confirms eligible residents receive one-time inflation refund checks automatically by mail with no application or information submission required.
- Security analysts have observed sending numbers originating outside the U.S. and links that do not use the official tax.ny.gov domain.
- New Yorkers are advised to avoid clicking unsolicited links, ignore calls seeking tax information, verify details on tax.ny.gov, and report attempts to the NYS Tax Department or the IRS.